Improvement in water-elevators



W/ [iii/Z77 Pam z N. PETERS. PHQTO-UTHDGRAPHER WASHINGTON 0 c PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB NEGLY, OF F AIRVIEW, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-ELEVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,334, dated September 20, 1864.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB NEGLY, of Fairview, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Water-Elevator and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact proximity to a suitable reservoir in such a manner that by the action of said clock-movement motion is imparted the endless chain of buckets, causing the empty buckets to descend into the water, and, when full, to ascend and discharge their contents in the receiving-ves sel, and that by these means a continuous raising of water from the well or reservoir is effected, without requiring any labor or attention except the occasional winding up of the clock. 4

A represents the frame, which forms the bearings for the several arbors of the clockmovement. This frame may be made ofmetal or any other suitable material, and it is secured to the platform or bed-plate B, which is situated over the well or reservoir from which the water is to be elevated. The clock-movement is similar to that ofan ordinary eight-day clock, or it maybe constructed in any desirable manner, and it may be driven by a weight or spring. If a weight is used, which in prac tice will be the most convenient, said weight is secured to a cord, to, which winds on a drum, b, secured to the arbor c of the clockmovement, and thence it may either hang down through a hole, d, in the platform B into the well, or the cord may be run up over a pulley arranged at a suitable height from the ground, and then down to get the requisite amount of motion for the weight. A suitable train of wheels transmits the motion from the arbor c to the arbor d, which carries the escapement-wheel e, and to which a drum,f, is secured, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. From the platform B extend two arms, 9, down into the well or reservoir to SlCh a depth below the surface of the water as will be necessary for the purpose of enab'ing the buckets to fill, and these arms form the be irings for the arbor h of the drum 2'. 0 is the endless chain of buckets, which is stretched over the drum ft, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and this chain carries a series of buckets,j, each provided with an oblique spout, 7r,t0 discharge the contents of the same into the receiving spout or vessel. 1. This spout or vessel is so situated that the buckets pass down in close proximity to it, and that the same catches the contents of said buckets with the least possible waste or spillthe clock-movement takes place in the direction of the arrow marked near it in Fig. 1, and by this motion the empty buckets are carried down into the well and caused to dip into the receiver 1, as indicated by arrows in Fig. 1.

The quantity of water elevated by this machine naturally depends upon the size of the buckets, the velocity of the motion of the chain, and finally upon the heft of the weight or power of the spring acting on the driving shaft 0 and upon the number and proportion of the gear-wheels transmitting the motion from the driving-shaft to the shaft 07, carrying the drumf. ltis obvious, however, that the weight or spring can be readily so arranged in proportion to the number and size of the buckets that the requisite motion will be imparted to the endless chain 0, and by the action of the buckets the operation of elevating water is continued without interruption as long as the clock continues to move.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of an endless chain of buckets with a clock-movement and with a receiver, 1, constructed and operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein shown and described.

J AOOB NEGLY.

Witnesses JAMES W. L. BRIGKER, WM. P. HENRY.

ing. The motion imparted to the arbor d by I 

